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Persistent neural activity and short-term memory
Computer architecture
The computer and the brain
Short-term vs. long-term memory
Dorsal and ventral streams
Inferotemporal cortex
“Face cells”
Delayed-match-to-sample task
Cortical areas of macaque
Visual hierarchy
Visual stimuli
Delay activity is selective
Invariance of delay activity
Intervening stimuli
Prefrontal cortex
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Delayed response task
Memory of object locations
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Memory-related neural activity
Head direction cells
Place versus head direction
Control of eye position
Memory of eye position
Where the memory is stored
Localization criteria
Damaging the memory
Neural coding of eye position
Oculomotor persistent activity
Analog coding
How does a transient stimulus cause a lasting change in neural activity?
Hypothetical mechanisms
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